God Tree

Watching his grown son fight, Minato is quietly overwhelmed with pride, feeling that nothing lies beyond their reach while they stand together, a warmth that stirs memories of his late wife Kushina and a wish for more time at Naruto's side. Naruto's blunt confidence that real men read one another without words pulls Minato back to the moment. When Naruto charges recklessly in Tailed Beast Mode, Tobirama needles him for forgetting that only senjutsu bites into the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, and a laughing Kurama has to remind its host that its chakra can now be merged with Sage Mode into the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, a fusion first glimpsed against Nagato.

The half of Kurama sealed within Minato lets him enter Tailed Beast Mode as well, giving his son heavy support. Using Tobirama's marking, the pair land a Parent and Child Rasengan on Obito, who narrowly shields himself with chakra arms and black matter. As Naruto and Minato ready a nature-energy-infused Tailed Beast Ball to break that substance, Obito chooses to release the Ten-Tails, blocking their strike and pushing his plan forward at once. The beast's body warps into an immense tree, and the Six Red Yang Formation is undone so its branches can reach across the Shinobi Alliance and drain their chakra, which Gyuki names as the creature's final form.

Shaken by the sight, Hashirama listens as Madara recounts the origins of the shinobi world, revealing that the Uchiha Stone Monument taught him the emptiness of reality and a belief that people are doomed to endless hatred. Obito halts the branches, content that the Alliance is breaking, and urges them to lie still as the flower crowning the tree nears bloom and the Infinite Tsukuyomi draws close. The episode belongs to the Birth of the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki arc and adapts chapters 645 and 646. It premiered in Japan on October 9, 2014, and in English on April 4, 2017.